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Cobar High School held their annual Athletics Carnival at Ward Oval last Wednesday with multiple records broken on the day. Under 14 girls competitor Hannah Carroll broke three records at the carnival as well as winning all of her nine events. Hannah’s Shot Put throw of 10.39 metres broke a […]

A big week of women’s golf kicked off last Wednesday with a Par game that was won by Jannine Wilkin. Wilkin finished with a score of +1 after a countback and was declared the winner over Susan Goonrey, who also finished with +1. Daphne Cross claimed third spot with -1 […]

Cobar netballers had great results at the Netball NSW 2017 State Championships over the long weekend at Baulkham Hills in Sydney. The Cobar Opens team competed in Opens Division 2 finishing with eight wins for the tournament while three Cobar juniors, who joined the Glen Innes team, finished as winners […]

Cobar junior netballers Zoe Carter, Abby Carswell and Lauren Urquhart joined the Under 17s Glen Innes team to contest this year’s Netball NSW State Championships over the weekend and helped their side to a Division 3 win. Glenn Innes coach Maryanne Perkins said she had been very pleased to welcome […]

Eight Cobar riders, and a former local rider, competed in this year’s Tatts Finke Desert Race in the Northern Territory over the long weekend. The two-day event saw 695 competitors on cars, bikes, buggies and quads travel 460km through desert country from Alice Springs to the Aputula (Finke) community and […]

The Cobar Caravan Park has recently welcomed new park managers Joe and Michelle Neate, who are very eager to boost tourism and put Cobar on the map. The newlyweds stepped straight into the manager’s role from their honeymoon last month and while both don’t actually have backgrounds working in hospitality, […]

The main street will soon be a blaze of colour with 25 new trees being planted to provide shade and visual aesthetics to the town. Cobar Shire Council’s urban supervisor Paul Sullivan told The Cobar Weekly they plan to plant trees from the Cobar Memorial Services Club along Marshall Street […]